There are two problem with option dragging. One is that option-drag is for copying things. The other is that it's not immediately obviuos that option dragging does anything. What we have now works, but it's not completely ideal (Dunno what that ideal solution is, or if it even exists, though).

1) Sound effect, specific to MC creation, that is played when the drag is finished. Signals audibly that something happened.

2) An indicator on list objects that are MCs to visually distinguish them at a glance and when a drag is complete this indicator appears, also indicating that something has been done, and provides a visible change.

1) oh god, definitely no sounds. I'm sure there's something in the HIG against this, and if there isn't, it's definitely very un-Mac-like.

2) My contact list consists of only text, no images (and only about 66% of it fits on the screen). Although, if our protocol icons and things scaled better, I would definitely be using them (they don't scale down at all right now). The code for the triangles can easily be adapted for those things (I wrote that code *puffs out chest*). It only makes them smaller, not bigger. and keeps them in line with the font-size. So I don't really know if I'm for or against this one.

How do other IM clients handle this type of thing (GAIM? Proteus? Trillian?)

cbarrett wrote:1) oh god, definitely no sounds. I'm sure there's something in the HIG against this, and if there isn't, it's definitely very un-Mac-like.

Like the poof sound effect or emptying trash or the other items included under System Preferences -> Sound and specifically "Play user interface sound effects" or the "ding" when you finish burning a CD?